Word: clout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Social Security pensions, which are increased every year to offset the full amount of inflation. Cost of living adjustments in most private pensions and in workers' wages are limited to part, if any, of the annual increase in prices. Why should Social Security pensioners alone be fully protected? Political clout, and no other reason...
...political clout of the religious right has been steadily increasing, as evidenced by their decisive support of Republican candidates in the most recent elections. Leaders of the religious right promote the movement as a bulwark of morality and traditional Christian values in the midst of a decadent society. But their actions and shrill rhetoric are often at odds with the biblical principles they claim to support...
...distribute movies, games and other programs to home viewers. Nynex, Bell Atlantic and Pacific Telesis have been talking with superagent Michael Ovitz about forming an alliance to make and distribute films. The idea is to create a coalition, or umbrella, that would enable the telephone companies, with the clout of their 50 million customers, to acquire the programming that will go out over these networks...
...would join the call of Senators Orrin Hatch and Pat Moynihan to partly repeal the exemption. Fat chance. Beyond ``the stated reason that this should be resolved by the parties themselves,'' says Senator Bob Graham, there's also the fact ``that the owners have a significant amount of political clout, and they don't want Congress mucking around in this...
...there. After Alexander's death in Babylon, or present-day Iraq, the body was sent back to Macedonia for burial. But Ptolemy, one of Alexander's generals, hijacked the corpse and eventually took it to his home base in Alexandria; having the Emperor's remains gave Ptolemy huge political clout...